Post by Bea on Jan 1, 2004 20:19:38 GMT -8

I've mentioned Peter's game Magnetic which I love. Well, now he has moved onto new things and that is jigsaws. The first thing he did was ordinary jigsaws that you could download onto the computer. Each jigsaw is about 300 pieces - each slighltly different. He has produced a programme which means that you can make the playing of the jigsaws as easy or as hard as you want. You can work with a picture to look at. You can align all the pieces the correct way or leave them as they are. You can work on just the border if you want to. And you can sort the pieces into different groups and just work on a small piece at a time. I will be honest I would not walk into a shop and buy a jigsaw - it irritates me to have jigsaw pieces all over the place and I always lose bits. But these I enjoy. There are two jigsaws that you can download and play for free (a logo and a market scene) and then you can if you like pay a small subscription and have a new jigsaw emailed to you every week for a year. Peter is a good photographer and each picture has been very different from the one before.The second thing he has moved onto is moving jigsaws. These are incredible. I did some beta testing for him. But now they are up and running. There is something so frustrating in trying to do a jigsaw where only a moment ago there was a picture and then there was just background where you are working. He has produced nine of these at the moment. Again, I think you can subscribe to get them or - if you have subscribed to the ordinary jigsaws you will get them for free. The pictures are all totally different. One is a logo with falling coins and the name scrolling across at different levels. There is one which is blocks of colour which change in size and position. I really enjoyed that and there is another which is a scene from close to where he lives with running water. Again, the first two jigsaws can be downloaded for free. He is supplying the nine jigsaws as a one off at the moment, although I think people will ask for more. The other thing is that you can control how fast the changes happenGive them a try www.mulawa.net and follow the links

Post by RivenFireMarble on Apr 29, 2004 5:43:25 GMT -8

Everyone has time, goku, but one has to learn how to use it efficiently. May I suggest that you take the time to read the entire message. Maybe you'll learn something as well as finding another entertaining website. Peter Hewitt is well known on this board and elsewhere. His brain-freezing games are spectacular.

Post by HunamSHODAN on May 3, 2004 14:08:57 GMT -8

The pieces aren't just like normal cardboard-pieces. Imagine an old Lada, then think of the new VW(VolksWagen)-bubble. An alien new and pleasing design.

The downside:The User Interface (UI) are REALLY bad, it consist of hotkeys, you will have to remember, to use the features, F1 wil not help you remember, you are oly reminded on the splash-screen.

Edit 13-5-04:F1 have been incorporated, AND 'H' is an option to do the same

The new piece-shapes makes it MUCH easier to make the puzzle.

With all this said, i REALLY like the idea of moving jigsaws, but I already have a jigsaw-program wich can import every *.jpg, *.gif (for steadies only), *.bmp on your computer. ???If I understand it right you can't import your own moving pictures, even in the real verion, you have to subscribe???

Edit 13-5-04:No, but you can win costom-artwork by joining competisions in the Mulawa forum

On a 1-6 scale I would give it a general of: 4UI: 2Edit 13-5-04: UI:3Idea: 5Look/design: 5Edit 9-6-04: Look/design: 5+

Lars

Oh well, the prog is lacking, but you will only notice it the first 5 sec. them you concentrate fully about the game.--------------------------------------------------------Edit 9-6-04:Have played the nonmoving game now, and I can only say this:

It is REALY-REALY great; Other jigsaws I can solve with some flicking of braincells, but for Peters handcrafted work, I have to ponder... It is realy great gymnastics for the gray muscles.

And for the addiction-factor of getting a jigsaw every week... It require some backbone not to start playing right away.

Post by Bea on May 5, 2004 18:07:22 GMT -8

If you enjoyed the demo, I think you woud love the actual jigsaws. Each one is so different from the other not just in subject but in the actual way it works. Peter has now brought out a second set of them which is in my opinion even more enjoyable - although it is very memory hungry. But I think the jigsaw series is very reasonably priced and Peter has a large number of people who have subscribed to the normal jigsaws for the year and who got the first series of moving ones free. The second series is not free - but again I don't think it is too expensive.Peter is also teaching a group of us to use Bryce - a design graphics system and we have all produced our own moving jigsaw which can be used in the programme. He has also supplied those of us who joined him in replaying Xiama - his first game through April, with our own personal jigsaw produced from a picture we have sent him

Post by HunamSHODAN on May 6, 2004 4:16:58 GMT -8

The 'problem' is that; handcrafting is rather expensive, in comparence to computer-calgulation; Jigsaw Puzzler can make unlimitet jigsaws...

It is an OLD cd I bought years ago, one of my first, discovered just now, that the website in 'about' doesn't support it anymore.

I (then) also had a demo of another jigsaw program, wich could the same (different interface, and if you lay(in past tense) a pice in the right place in the screen, it said 'ding' and it stayed there, even if it was a lonly pice in the middle of the screen, because it was the right place).

If Peter could incorporate two forms: computer-generatet upon own pictures(not as buitiful as the hand-craftet) and his handcraftet pictures, then I would not doubt a minute to buy it.Sinse I have seen two programs that can (litterately) break pictures down to pices, I hope it is rather easy.

Post by mulawa1 on May 11, 2004 16:16:50 GMT -8

Lars,

Good point about F1 - amazing I didn't think of that (put it down to my aging brain) - am about to release an upgrade so will add that. In the meantime you can press "H" at any time to bring up the key list and then hit the key you want straight away.

Post by HunamSHODAN on May 12, 2004 7:04:26 GMT -8

*ROFL*That, is our comming queen, and (sadly), not my girlfriend...

She's from Australia(that is why I am thanking you for her), and is going to marry [glow=red,2,300]His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark[/glow] on friday (wich is declared a holyday, thought it was also like that in Australia).

Post by oldone on Sept 30, 2005 13:37:48 GMT -8

I read this thread just last week and thought I'd try the jigsaw. I was very impressed. Today I downloaded the demo PMJ and loved it. So much so that I bought a subscription to PJ. I know I will enjoy the puzzles very much. Thank you Peter, for creating these magnificent jigsaws.